Monday, December 27, 2010

Calendars, Calendars, Calendars

Hi! So I guess the theme this year was calendars! I made a whole bunch. Last year I made a whole bunch of little notepads and note cards for Christmas gifts. This took me a while to do. I made some for teachers, friends and family. Above is the CD insert using the PTI Calendar Basics set.

The teachers' ones looked like the one above. I used PTI's Teacher's Apple stamp set. The calendar pages are die cut with their calendar die and all the individual calendar pages are from PTI also. A lot of cranking of the Big Shot.

This was the first teacher calendar I made. It was also the last one to use patterned paper cause after doing all this I couldn't fit it into the CD case! It was too thick. So only a few pages will fit at a time in the CD case if you embellish too much. That's why I decided to just stamp on the cardstock instead.

I made a couple of sets using PTI's All About You stamp set with fresh snow ink. Some of my pages got globby with the white ink. And the ink showed up much nicer are the darker paper of course. I tried not to put too much ink on the stamp and to wipe off the excess with a paper towel every so often. That helped a lot to just leave clean stamped lines. Live and learn, I suppose. But this was inspired from Nicole Heady's calendar. If only I had the entire Year of Flowers collection with matching cardstock and ink too . . .

Isn't this one of the cutest papers ever?? This line of papers and the paper pad from Imaginisce is so cute. I had to make a calendar with the papers.

You can click on the photo to see the papers closer.

This paper pad set is from Wild Rose Studio. The papers were thin so much easier to fit into the CD cases plus I didn't need to do anything to decorate the pages. Just cut and slide in the calendar pages. And after so much cutting, I really wanted something simple.

Lastly, I made one using pictures of my kids. I didn't die cut the pictures. I just trimmed some 5 x 7 photos to fit into the CD cases and taped the individual calendar pages to each one. I taped some patterned paper behind some of the photos that were too short. If the calendar page was too big in some cases, I just trimmed it to fit better on the photo. I wanted to try something like this after I had seen Heather Nichols' post. But I didn't have much time to search for pictures that had enough space for me to die cut in the right area for the calendar page to slide into. So I thought this would save me time and frustration.

The spine of some of the CD calendars I made. In total, I think I made about 15 CD calendars and a couple of easel calendars.

2 comments:

WOW, these are beautiful, Eva! I especially like the one you made out of photos. You put a lot of handmade effort into all of your gifts. I'm sure the recipients love them. (Oh, and I did not jump on the PTI calendar bandwagon so I'm living through those of you who did, lol.)

Love your calendars! Good tips for stamping with the white ink, gotta try that, I think I go overboard with tapping on the inkpad. The princess paper is so cute! You fit the calendars onto your photos really well. It boggles my mind how your 3 kids pose nicely together for photos!

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Hi! I'm Eva. Simply put, I love to make things. Ever since I was a kid. And anything, really. Especially if it involves cute stamps, paper, pictures, ribbons, beads--the list goes on. I love visiting other crafting blogs for inspiration too. There are so many creative people out there. So thank you for stopping by our blog!

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Hello, I'm Cheryl! I enjoy scrapbooking, digital scrapbooking, (beginning) photography. My fellow blogger/enabler got me into stamps and cardmaking. I think I like admiring patterned paper, playing with tools and gadgets, taking classes, and browsing other people's blogs too much! Maybe this will motivate me to get more pages/projects actually done!